The 12th edition of the annual Chandubi Festival came to a close today. The final camp fire marked the end of this year’s celebrations.
Like the previous versions, this year’s event too started on the new year’s day. The Chief Executive Member of the Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council Tankeswar Rabha inaugurated this year’s festival. Several other senior members of the community were also present for the event.
Thousands of tourists from all over the state, some from other states and even a few foreigners visited this festival. They enjoyed the traditional performances and tried the ethnic cuisines. A huge number of visitors also took the boat ride on the serene Chandubi Lake during the Chandubi Festival.
The Chandubi Festival is an annual event hosted on the banks of the Chandubi Lake to attract tourists to the locality. The crater lake was formed because of a major earthquake making it a very unique ecosystem. But with the road conditions being very bad in the last few years, the number of visitors remained very limited. However recent up-gradation of the road infrastructures has made access to the location very easy as well as very fast.
Prayers to the their deity, believed to be one of the forms of Lord Shiva is an important part of the festival. The campfire is the the closing event of the festival . The senior members of the community led by their traditional priest offered their respects to the deity by making offerings. And the fire was lit thereafter and the people dances around the fire for some time before the curtains came down on the celebrations.
